What to do about premenstrual headaches

Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon for women. Menstruation occurs every month. Most women will experience different symptoms before menstruation. Some women will experience breast pain before menstruation, and some women will experience headaches before menstruation. However, most people do not take these symptoms to heart and think that this is a normal phenomenon. What should we do if we have headaches before menstruation?

What to do with premenstrual headaches?

Before and after menstruation, a large amount of prostaglandins are released in women's blood, which will dilate blood vessels and relax smooth muscles, disrupting the vasoconstriction function and reducing estrogen levels, which can easily cause headaches.

How to relieve premenstrual headaches

1. Head massage: Massaging the head with moderate force is an effective way to relieve headaches. The temple is an acupuncture point that can relieve headaches. Close your eyes and press the temple with the tip of your index finger, or use your fist to gently rotate back and forth between the temple and the hairline to massage.

2. Use an ice pack to cool down. Wrap the ice pack with a towel, or wet it with ice water and apply it to the area where you have a headache. This can constrict the blood vessels in the head and play a certain role in relieving headache symptoms.

3. Wrap a towel around your head. This may make you look funny, but it is indeed a good way to relieve headaches. When you have a headache, wrap a towel or cloth strip around your temples with appropriate tightness. This can inhibit the dilation of blood vessels and relieve the headache.

What causes headaches before menstruation?

1. Headache caused by liver qi stagnation and qi and blood deficiency

According to traditional Chinese medicine, pre-menstrual headaches are mostly caused by liver qi stagnation and qi and blood deficiency. The head is the meeting point of all yang, but only the Jueyin liver meridian can reach the top of the head. Women are based on blood and use Qi. The liver stores blood and is responsible for regulating Qi. If Qi and blood flow smoothly, menstruation will come on time. If the liver Qi is not smooth, Qi is depressed and blood is stagnant, blood stasis will occur inside the body, resulting in less menstrual volume or even inability to menstruate on time, and stagnation of menstrual Qi. Therefore, the meridians are disturbed and the clear orifices are caused, resulting in headaches.

2. Vascular headache

Some women experience vascular headaches before menstruation. This is because one of the female hormones is called follicle-stimulating hormone, which can regulate the tension of blood vessels. When menstruation is about to come, the secretion of female hormones decreases sharply, causing female blood vessels to be in an unstable state, thus causing headaches.

2. Headaches caused by imbalance of estrogen and progesterone ratio

When the estrogen level in a woman's blood drops to a certain level, it can also cause headaches. Moreover, the estrogen level fluctuates with the menstrual cycle, which causes many women to experience periodic headaches.